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The Tin Age Of Gold
Tommy Tuberville, 1/11/2010:
"We're going to air it out," Tuberville said. "We're going to keep the Air Raid. I think it's something that Tech has hit upon that gives them that identity to recruit."
Rich Rodriguez, sometime in 2008:
"We'll adapt. I like winning too much not to adapt a little bit to our personnel."
Brady Hoke, 1/14/2011:
"I think you'd be remiss as a coach if you don't know your personnel, and you try to implement something that maybe you're not quite ready for. There's a way to grow to it. So we're not going to try to put any square pegs in round holes."
Midway through Rich Rodriguez's first season it had become clear that Michigan was spectacularly bad at football for the first time since the 60s, and the blame started to go around. A large portion of it was directed at Rodriguez shoehorning Michigan's pro-style personnel into the spread offense, and it was all dumb. Very dumb. I wrote a post explaining how dumb this was called "The Golden Age of Tin." In brief:
- Despite having NFL talent up and down the roster Michigan was about 70th in offense in 2007. All of that talent left.
- Michigan had moved to a zone running game two years before Rodriguez arrived and he changed very little on the line.
- Four of the five starters skill position starters were freshmen who had never played in a pro-style offense. (Brandon Minor would later return from injury/discontent/quasi-suspension and play pretty well.)
- The run-pass split was almost 50-50 a year after WVU ran 70% of the time.
- The quarterbacks were bad in any system.
A couple years later, Nick Sheridan is a grad assistant, a redshirt junior version of Steven Threet has a 18-16 TD-INT ratio for a 6-6 Arizona State team, and Michigan's spread offense is one halfway decent turnover margin/defense/kicker from being awesome. Rich Rodriguez did a lot of things wrong in his time in Ann Arbor, but installing the offense he'd been running for 20 years wasn't one of them.
Because of all the things he did do wrong, however,
he's in a sad car with sad child. Al Borges is now in charge of Denard Robinson, a bunch of slot receivers, tailbacks no one except Fred Jackson thinks much of, and… well… a pretty decent set of pro-style outside receivers, tight ends, and (probably) offensive linemen.
Borges is going to do the only thing he can do with this personnel: coach a pro-style offense with a vertical passing game. This is not going to be as good for Michigan as continuity would be, but the person to blame for that is the athletic director, or Rich Rodriguez, or some of the things Rich Rodriguez did wrong. Al Borges has not spent the last 20 years figuring out how to get mileage out of quarterbacks who double as drag racers in the offseason. He's spent it saying "no, I'm not Jeffery Tambor" and passing to open up the run.
Coincidentally, the best example of what happens when you replace a Rich Rodriguez-type coach with a more passing-oriented guy is when West Virginia replaced Rich Rodriguez with Jeff Mullen. Mullen was the QB coach responsible for turning Wake Forest into a miraculously effective offense through 2007 and arrived in Morgantown promising more balance in the Mountaineer offense. He got it:
OC | Year | Runs | Passes | Run% |
Rodriguez | 2007 | 628 | 265 | 70% |
Mullen | 2008 | 517 | 305 | 63% |
Unsurprisingly, passes got less effective as they became more frequent. The thing that dropped WVU from a national title contender to just another top 25 team was that despite rushing less, rushes also got less effective.
OC | Year | YPC | YPA | Pass Eff |
Rodriguez | 2007 | 6.2 | 7.8 | 11th |
Mullen | 2008 | 5.3 | 6.4 | 28th |
If you're thinking Steve Slaton's exit for the NFL may have had something to do with that, replacement Noel Devine actually rushed for 6.3 YPC. What happened? Burgeoning Wolverine Star has a table of its own that highlights the severe drop in productivity from quarterback legs that started as soon as Rodriguez left. Pat White's rushes were exactly as frequent—down to a tenth of a percentage point—as they were in 2007 but his productivity dropped alarmingly. White averaged 6.7(!) YPC under Rodriguez and just 5 under Mullen.
While it's possible the schedule was tougher and the team weaker after Owen Schmitt and a few others graduated, Devine's numbers suggest the most likely explanation for that huge drop is that Mullen didn't know what the hell to do with White.
So. Michigan fans wishing to protect their soul-tingly-bits would do well to regard quotes like these from Borges as gentle untruths created for public perception:
"I've been doing this for 24 years. I'm no genius and I do not pretend to be one, but I have a hell of a lot of experience with a lot of different types of quarterbacks."
But when Borges goes on to compare Robinson to Michael Vick and what he's doing with the Eagles…
"They said Michael Vick couldn't be a West Coast-style quarterback, and he's one of the top five quarterbacks in the NFL. Why? Because they put him in situations to run and throw. Denard is 6-feet tall, like Michael Vick. He can run and he can throw and make things happen. If Michael Vick can do that with the Philadelphia Eagles, why can't Denard Robinson do that at Michigan?"
…he suggests that "a lot of different types of quarterback" boil down to guys running NFL offenses with various scrambling add-ons. This is not a fluke. Borges has an array of quotes along those lines. It's also not very realistic. Vick's long and winding journey to becoming a good NFL quarterback took ten years of intensive coaching. When he was three years out of high school (like Denard will be next year) he had a 9-7 TD-INT ratio; VT ran 74% of the time. Their offense was a grab-bag of spread 'n' shred mixed with pro-style that featured a heavy dose of option and even more "Mike Vick makes one read on seven-step drop and starts running." It was pretty effective, but it was even more run-heavy than Rodriguez's Pat White days and took the most outrageously athletic player in the last two decades to make it go.
I'm not sure Denard is quite that, and if we're talking about putting Denard in positions to run or pass that just sounds like a lot of rollouts. And here's the weird thing about Robinson: the guy hates running the ball when he's not explicitly directed to. When he got to the edge this year he invariably chose to throw even when it was third and three and there wasn't a guy within six yards of him.
run run run run run nooooooo okay [ninja stuff] wooooo
Maybe that's because Michigan's offense revolved around Denard running 25 times a game and he didn't want to put any more tread on his tires, but seriously, how many times did you scream "run!" at the TV or field last year?
Maybe this will work out. Maybe Michigan will run four verticals at opponents until their safeties scream for help, whereupon Denard will be able to enact one-read-and-scramble. It would be easier to imagine this happening with Braylon Edwards on the outside, but Michigan did have some success throwing deep in the bowl game and I'm guessing Denard's going to spend most of his offseason throwing fly routes.
But if it doesn't, there's no alternative. Coaches are old and crotchety and just are who they are. They have a very specific, gradually moving corpus of knowledge and when they deviate from that performance suffers. Borges is an effective coordinator with a certain sort of offense. Without it he's probably going to be a version of Jeff Mullen. This is no one's fault, really, just like it wasn't anyone's fault three years ago when Rich Rodriguez surveyed his offensive personnel and felt the crevasse beneath him inch open for the first time.
Tommy Tuberville, 12/27/2010:
"I still believe in running the football," he said. "More than what they did in the past. That's the biggest difference. We want to be a bit more physical and be able to run the ball, which will help throwing it down the field, too."
RIP, air raid. RIP, spread 'n' shred.
BONUS: we should put together a pool for when and where the first column approvingly citing Borges's ability to adapt relative to Rodriguez by comparing their first seasons shows up. Bonus points will be awarded for the most irritatingly shallow glossing over of the difference between junior Denard Robinson with seniors around him versus freshman Threetsheridammit surrounded by fellow freshmen.
DISCLAIMER SECTION: I expect these things next year: Denard is a better thrower, turnover margin is a lot better (fourth year running, that prediction), all yardage metrics drop, scoring drops slightly from 25th but is better distributed across the schedule, FEI plummets. Improvement from the defense and, god willing, kicker will mask a drop in offensive power.
Unverified Voracity Destroyed Helmets
Rob Lytle. Rob Lytle was before my time, so I can't offer anything personal in reaction to his death at the young age of 56. Wolverine Historian has dug through his archives and posted an interview with him from his playing days:
MVictors posted the WH compilation from the '76 OSU game during which Lytle ran wild. Angelique Chengelis writes the News's obit:
"He was special," Hanlon said Sunday. "He had a confidence about him which never showed up as cockiness. He was just always a team player: 'What can I do to help?'" …
"You would never have known he was a great Michigan football player or professional football player," [Bruce] Madej said. "He didn't talk about it. He was anything but a big-timer. He was a nice, unassuming good guy. He was truly a good guy."
Markus at Maize 'n' Brew does have some personal memories and they all come down to his obliterated helmet:
The second thing I will remember about Rob Lytle was his helmet. He played alongside some really tough and mean customers like S Don Dufek, DT Greg "Mo" Morton, S Dwight Hicks and OLB Calvin O'Neal. Most of these guys had Wolverine helmet awards completely covering the surface of their striped, winged, Michigan football helmet. Lytle's Michigan helmet was loaded with helmet awards too, but he front of the helmet was a mess. I mean, the Maize paint was all screwed up, scratched and blended. Lytle's head covering was put through so much abuse, you couldn't tell where the Michigan wings ended and the stripes began.
That thing's been through a war. Several wars.
Lytle had a great career with the Broncos after his Michigan days and Huckleby4Heisman collected some of the articles out of Denver, including what's probably the first and last Woody Paige column I'll happily link. From some NFL teammates:
"He wasn't the fastest guy in the league, but he got the tough yards every time," Morton said. "He would run through a brick wall for his team every time if he had to."
In his seven NFL seasons, all with the Broncos, Lytle rushed for 1,451 yards and 12 touchdowns and also had 562 yards receiving and two scores.
"He was an all-around player," Thompson said. "He ran hard. He could catch the ball well. He wasn't afraid to block. He was just an all-around good athlete."
The Broncos' vice president for corporate communications also has a post that's far more touching than his job title implies. RIP, Rob Lytle.
Soccer triumphant. Unless you are a Wisconsin fan, if you missed Sunday's NCAA tourney game against UCF you missed the most entertaining sporting event on Michigan's campus last weekend. Michigan launched 30 shots before overtime kicked in, then finally got the goal to put them over the top on a zinged-in free kick from Hamoody Saad that glanced off Latif Alashe on its way in but was probably destined for the net anyway. Also one of UCF's best players was rocking a Wesley Snipes in Demolition Man high top fade. It was wicked.
In the aftermath, the team performed a reverse field rush by running into the student section. Justin Meram was shirtless and airborne:
#10 Michigan takes on #7 South Carolina in the third round. Unfortunately, they also scraped an overtime goal against Duke so the next game will be on the road. There doesn't appear to be any TV, which makes me cranky. Game is Sunday at 2.
BONUS: Yes, Meram does have a year of eligibility left for football if he wants to try his hand at kicker, but my friend exclaimed "he's better than Robbie Findley" in all seriousness and it was tough to disagree. A pro career probably beckons.
So about those incredibly obvious trends I got torn apart for mentioning. I got torn apart by rival fanbases for suggesting two things this offfseason. One: Penn State's quarterback situation is alarming and dismal. Two: Iowa wasn't all that great in 2009 and was overrated going into 2010. It was looking pretty good for thing one until Michigan's defense showed up to un-save the day and Matt McGloin experienced two and a half games in which he was Brett Favre before turning into Brett Favre in the second half against Ohio State. PSU's 71st in passer efficiency and while that's not good it's not as bad as I thought it would be before the season.
The other thing, well… remember this?
I don't think Iowa will be bad, exactly, but I'd be less surprised by the Hawkeyes finishing fifth in the Big Ten than second.
And remember the BHGP response to this?
And I guess that's what is so sad about this. Because this is idiotic, and it is clueless, and it is so against character that it deserves to be called idiotic and clueless. Either Cook didn't realize it's moronic, which makes him the least likely moron I've ever met, or Cook knew it (the title gives it away), and that basically makes him Tom Dienhart this time. Regardless of the motivation, it's beneath him.
Iowa's now 7-4 and featuring in Doc Sat "Life on the Margins" posts about how Iowa's lost that old crunch-time feeling while Fight For Iowa should really be adding pictures of Henry The Otter of Ennui to a post titled "The Wastelands of Mediocrity" that went up even before the OSU game. They're headed for 8-4 since their last game is against Minnesota and will thus be at worst tied for fourth in the league (Penn State is also 4-3 and can match them by beating MSU in the season finale), but preseason skepticism about Iowa turned out to be something less than idiotic and clueless.
Something less than rabid careless monsters. Pierre Woods was chilling out in Ann Arbor, working as a groundskeeper and trying to keep in playing shape after the Patriots cut him earlier in the year. He did so by hanging out with Barwis, and is grateful:
"The guys at Michigan, man, they prepared me," Woods told me. "Trust me. They prepared me. The head strength coach (Mike Barwis), the assistant (Parker Whiteman), I'm pretty sure they got tired of seeing my face up in there, but they allowed me to work out, use the facilities, go around, eat, everything. They treated me like family. You play at Michigan, you come back, they treat you like family. I got nothing but love for those guys and I appreciate what they did."
Woods got back on the Patriots and is extending his NFL career somewhat. He did yoga with Mike Barwis and his family. Wolves doing yoga, basically.
Etc.: Wisconsin blog breaks down the 61-yard touchdown but starts after the guy is already through the line. That's 95% of the play! TWIS embeds the same things from the game column and tours that one USC board after the demolition at the hands of Oregon State. Michigan is going to a bowl game so AnnArbor.com brings out the same complaint from the previous academics investigation: academic folk get to go. Hurray for that being a relevant thing to bleat about again. The Daily on Troy Woolfolk's recovery from an ankle dislocation. Have a thought for the Michigan class of 2011, which started its career watching the Horror and finished it watching whatever that was against Wisconsin, with mostly crap in between.
Ron Kramer never lost common touch
"I remember one game when MSU came down (to Ann Arbor) and Johnny Green got on the floor and started showing off his dribbling skills. Kramer checked him five rows into the stands the first chance he had."
Unverified Voracity Will Eat Them Up
I Will Eat Them Up: Remix. Boyz in the Pahokee wanted to parody hype videos. He failed, but in doing so succeeded:
Sit under the Banyan tree and ponder this.
As long as we're pondering the above, yeah… I thought this was slightly premature after UConn but, like, dude:
Yeah… kinda. Offer still stands with the Brock Mealer shirt, by the way: buy a Brock shirt, donate to Brock's continued rehab, get five bucks off another MGoShirt. "onepercent" is your magic word.
Old school. Did you know Bump Elliott was on "What's My Line?" With his brother? Who was Illinois' coach at the time?
Different world when you could have the head coaches of Michigan and (I guess) Illinois on a TV show and people had to guess as to who they were instead of saying "what's the deal with hiring that rube from Southern Miss, eh?" FWIW, Michigan went 6-3 in the 1961 season, defeating 0-9 Illinois 38-6 but losing to both Michigan State and Ohio State by lots. Minnesota was the other loss.
Die, Special K. Straight from Brandon's mouth about pipin' it in:
"I will probably be chastised for telling this story: At a Big 10 AD meeting I proposed an amendment to allow bands to be miked and it was emphatically turned won. I kept pushing it and tried to convince the other AD's that it was about distributing the sound throughout stadiums better and not amplifying the sound on the field. Using my persuasive powers, we eventually got this amendment passed and now we've got the band miked. Now to head off any questions about the recorded music, we are planning on there being less recorded music now that the band can be heard better. "
Adios, Ron. #87 Ron Kramer, the last Michigan player to have his number retired, died on Saturday. Since he played 20 years before I was born I don't have much to say that's not in a press release, but the News's Jerry Green does:
Ron Kramer lugged the wooden brown box into the saloon close to the University of Michigan's campus in Ann Arbor. "Give me two Scotch-and-waters," Kramer told the bartender.
Kramer placed the brown box atop the bar. The guy behind the bar looked at Kramer with deep curiosity. Ron was alone, accompanied only by the box.
"What do you want two for?" the bartender asked Kramer.
"Bennie is kind of dry," answered Kramer.
Yeah: Oosterbaan, ashes of. The Hoover Street Rag has another story in the same vein and Lynn Henning talks to Frank Beckmann, Jerry Hanlon, and Don Dufek about him.
It might be pretty stupid to think that Denard Robinson going 87 yards had anything to do with Kramer, but what the hell, right? Let's do it anyway.
Perspective: there is no perspective. Denard's second week by the Mathlete's numbers:
Another ground game worth 12 PAN [Ed: Points Above Normal, IIRC], just like last week. My database goes back to the 2003 season and during that time there have been a total of 107 games where a player has recorded a PAN of 12 or higher. Of those 107 times, there are 10 players who have done it at least twice (4 have done it three times). The only players to have put up a dozen on the ground twice in one season versus BCS teams, Denard and two others, Jerome Harrison at Washington State vs Stanford and UCLA in 2005 and Chris Barclay at Wake Forest vs Clemson and Maryland in 2003.
So if he does this again in the Big Ten season he will have done something unprecedented over the last seven years in college football. Also, the Mathlete calculates that Michigan's penalties cost them a full touchdown and the kickers are not good, but you didn't need math for that last bit.
Penn State hockey: engage. INCH is reporting that Friday will see an official announcement of Penn State hockey, something that will likely be followed by the CCHA extending a membership offer as soon as whichever official is drafted to make the statement finishes the syllable "ho—". This is win for the CCHA, for the Big Ten Network, and possibly for a Big Ten conference I'd be behind as long as it can be accomplished without seeing any existing programs fold, whether that's by scheduling guarantees from departing clubs or whatever.
This is all very vague still but USCHO reports some grumblin' and mumblin' at a top-secret WCHA meeting:
At a meeting late last week, WCHA coaches discussed the potential of a Big Ten hockey league starting in the near future, and how that would impact their league, sources said. … Sources indicated that the hot topic of speculation at the WCHA meeting was that the 2014-15 season is a potential start date for the Big Ten in hockey.
At this point I doubt anything other than Minnesota blanching can prevent the Big Ten Hockey Death Star from forming. Wisconsin ended the College Hockey Showcase because it explicitly wanted more games against Big Ten opponents; it seems like they'd be willing to jump. Michigan, Michigan State, and Ohio State aren't attached to the CCHA closely enough for tradition to override dolla dolla bill ya'll. That would be a brutal six-team conference on paper but of late State and Minnesota have struggled to consistently make the NCAA tournament, and Michigan came within a whisker of whiffing for the first time in twenty years. Still, PSU hockey would be in for a rough ride to start.
I don't think the impact on CCHA members would be too hard since a six-team Big Ten leaves at least 14 nonconference dates for conference members to fill and it will make economic sense to spend most of those playing Ferris, Western, Lake State, Northern, et al. Michigan might schedule regular trips to Alaska because those get exempted, as well. The WCHA will be fine; all of those programs are established.
Slow States has the PSU angle.
Defending the inside zone with the 3-3-5. Relevant post by Football Defense on something we figure to see later this year:
Versus the Inside Zone, I want to either avoid double teams (pretty tough in a 3-3-5 Defense) or or split double teams. By slanting our Defensive Line against the Zone blocking, we have the best chance to split those doubles.
As long as we're still working to split the double, the Offensive Line can't get off to get to the Linebackers, and this is where I believe we stop the Inside Zone. If you have 3 Linebackers that are able to run free (not including the Outside Linebackers a.k.a. Overhang Safeties here) you should have no trouble stopping the play.
Thus far it's been a lot of power (pulling linemen, not sliding double-teams) but we'll run up against zone teams in the Big Ten schedule, most prominently Illinois. Since Michigan ran a ton of inside zone against UConn I'd hope they're proficient at it.
Etc.: Dhani Jones will return to campus on October 15th to speak to students at the behest of the Social Entrepreneurship Initiative. Union Ballroom, 3:30. I wouldn't ask him about Rodriguez. Denard Robinson tribute tumblr. Scott Wolf has an irrational hatred of the Big Ten. Whirlwind '>pre-UConn Mustache tour.
ONE At irregular intervals, one of my girlfriend's cats—yes, there are two and yes I realize this means I am playing with serious cat-lady-down-the-road fire—will face the wall or a window or a door and emit what is possibly the world's most angst-ridden noise, somewhere between a meow and a strangled cry of existential dread.
Sometimes, the girlfriend will call out to the cat, acknowledging the deep roiling depths of his soul-dread. The cat will continue making the noise, unconsoled. Then, because it is a cat, it will completely forget about it and go do something else.
TWO Some years ago a strange literary conception popped into my mind in the course of writing twenty or so pages of a novel about the whittling of a set of five ninjas*: one of the characters in the book was subconsciously off-putting and consciously morose because instead of the usual organs and cells and atoms and subatomic particles he was comprised of layer after layer of tiny cats. Cat nerve cells stretched down his spine, each with their mouth on the tail of the adjacent cell; messages were passed when a sensory cat would be disturbed and bite down, causing the next cat to become impotently angry and use the only means of revenge at his disposal, which would be more biting. These cells had cat organelles and cat molecules all the way down to the frantically yowling electron cats and ovoid neutron cats that looked more like balls of yarn than cats and spent their time purringly content, &c.
I never got around to fleshing that idea out, but when I saw David Foster Wallace respond to a question posed by Charlie Rose with a sort of enraged incomprehension—literally saying "are we really talking about X?" before stammering out a spittle flecked, blindingly intelligent answer—I saw my man made of cats in the flesh. Wallace seemed repulsed by everything around him down to his own skin and torn between flight, murder, or suicide; lacking the ability to decide, he grit his teeth and soldiered on.
No more of that.
*(The ninjas were I dunno, symbolic of a friendship forged in one of those houses occupied by five to eleven guys in college and eventually ended up cinders as the people from the house splintered into their adult lives. It was (obviously) autobiographical and (equally obviously) embarked upon during that horrible post-college, mid-twenties lull where you are just getting used to the idea that you are not a special snowflake and all your friends moved, or you did, and your connections to the world are flimsy and unsatisfying.)
THREE I think, insofar as it is possible for anyone who really, really likes David Foster Wallace to think like this, that the aforementioned is pretty much #1 on my list of personal heroes. At this point, styles and formatting and idioms from his writing are so deeply embedded into mine that I'd forgotten where I got "&c"—DFW for etc.—from. "Bats" is my preferred term for insane. On Friday, I referenced Orin Incandenza, Wallace's insanely valuable and accurate punter from Infinite Jest. In a 2005 post I urge you to not go back and read because yikes the prose, I riffed on a section of DFW's brilliant article on fringe tennis player Michael Joyce. I'm extremely disappointed in myself because the season preview didn't claim the offensive line gave me the howling fantods.
At some point a few years ago, I read the 1,079 pages of Infinite Jest in five days. When I was done, I was livid it wasn't 300 pages longer. I went back to the beginning and read the first 50 or 100 pages again and realized that the book really was infinite: it was a loop. You could start from any point in it and end at any point and it would be the same: brilliant, infuriating, incomplete, and recursive. Wallace wrote a book on infinity and a thesis on modal logic and sometimes seemed more like a math genius with a side of authorial genius.
I mean, obviously, right? Obviously as soon as I picked something up.
FOUR Wallace would see-saw back and forth on a topic and in writing about one thing would invariably recurse his way into something entirely other, precisely define that, and then tie that back into the main thrust of his argument. Yesterday I re-read his review of a usage dictionary—usage! English usage!—and found this brilliant summation of why this blog is a successful endeavor:
…all the autobiographical stuff in ADMAU's Preface does more than just humanize Mr. Bryan A. Garner. It also serves to detail the early and enduring passion that helps make someone a credible technocrat — we tend to like and trust experts whose expertise is born of a real love for their specialty instead of just a desire to be expert at something. In fact, it turns out that ADMAU's Preface quietly and steadily invests Garner with every single qualification of modern technocratic Authority: passionate devotion, reason, and accountability, experience, exhaustive and tech-savvy research, an even and judicious temperament [uh… I try. –ed], and the sort of humble integrity (for instance, including in one of the entries a past published usage-error of his own) that not only renders Garner likable but transmits the same kind of reverence for English that good jurists have for the law, both of which are bigger and more important than any one person.
Probably the most attractive thing about ADMAU's Ethical Appeal, though, is Garner's scrupulous consideration of the reader's concern about his (or her) own linguistic authority and rhetorical persona and ability to convince an Audience that he cares.
He did this all the time, accidentally. Writing on lobsters, he defined the only morally and logically consistent position you can have on abortion. Writing on the Illinois State Fair, he defined an entire elusive section of the American populace. Writing on cruise ships, he defined his life: "a supposedly fun thing I'll never do again."
FIVE DFW, like all of the people who have written truly great things about sports since I've been paying attention, was not a sportswriter. He was a writer whose attention occasionally turned to sports, mostly tennis, and people who invest their time in the intricately choreographed peregrinations of athletes were always better off for it. The last time Wallace touched upon the subject was a New York Times Magazine article on the 2006 Federer-Nadal Wimbeldon final. This I also read yesterday, after considering the vast array of brooding photos that accompanied news stories and tributes across the internet, after revisiting the Rose interview in which Wallace seemed like a preternaturally unhappy person.
Necessary background for what's to follow: the piece is titled "Roger Federer as Religious Experience," states its thesis thusly…
if you've never seen the young man play live, and then do, in person, on the sacred grass of Wimbledon, through the literally withering heat and then wind and rain of the '06 fortnight, then you are apt to have what one of the tournament's press bus drivers describes as a "bloody near-religious experience."
…and touches upon on a seven year-old boy named William Caines who was diagnosed with cancer at two and a half and served as Wimbeldon's inspiring moppet du jour—my words, not Wallace's.
In typically infuriating DFW fashion, Wallace buries the very crux of his piece—this cannot be disputed, it's the title and thesis—in footnote #17. Perhaps he wanted to hide it. Didn't know what to do with it. Wanted to say it but whisper it. Whatever. Midway through the third set there is a Federer Moment. DFW writes:
By the way, it's right around here, or the next game, watching, that three separate inner-type things come together and mesh. One is a feeling of deep personal privilege at being alive to get to see this; another is the thought that William Caines is probably somewhere here in the Centre Court crowd, too, watching, maybe with his mum. The third thing is a sudden memory of the earnest way the press bus driver promised just this experience. Because there is one. It's hard to describe — it's like a thought that's also a feeling. One wouldn't want to make too much of it, or to pretend that it's any sort of equitable balance; that would be grotesque. But the truth is that whatever deity, entity, energy, or random genetic flux produces sick children also produced Roger Federer, and just look at him down there. Look at that.
Everybody but everybody is dredging up the thousand and one points in Wallace's writing that presage a premature, self-inflicted demise; this might be the one passage in his entire oeuvre that makes it shocking. And I think that sports may not be such a silly thing to make a career of describing and relating and experiencing.
SIX I even kind of look like DFW: tall, broad-shouldered, glasses, shaggy, shoulder-length brown hair, perpetual growth of stubble.
SEVEN I love that image of DFW at Wimbeldon, in the stands, those things converging on him, forgetting all the things that make his suicide so very unsurprising, thinking just look at him down there.
Look at that.


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Had a contractor show me harvey windows; the Harvey Classic. Im no expert but the window looked cheap and very flimsy. The ufactor was only a .30 . Another concern was the spacer, harvey uses a Tin plated spacer and not the new technology which is non metal. I have seen quite a few brands and was educated thoroughly which is why i now know about spacer's, ufactor, and other important features. I must of seen 6 window brands. The worst was silverline, mi windows, pella, and the harvey. The best were soft lite, okna, and the quantum 2 window. I am about to make a decision and want to make sure my suspicions regarding Harvey are correct. |
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I know the Harvey Classic product well. I do agree, its cheap looking and not made very well. The walls are very thin compromising any structural integrity and their energy efficiency numbers are very poor. They also have what they call their high end window called tribute but that is mid grade at best and also has thin walls and poorly designed spacer system( tin plated). Lots of guys around here use harvey because they are cheap but thats not in the best interest of their customers. They will say how they installed alot of them with no complaints bla bla bla...once they are installed and a customer paid a cheap price, who is really going to complain in a few years... Dont get me wrong, harvey is not horrible, its basically a contractor window but still better than silverline or MI windows. Remember, harvey is a building products company who make all kinds of building material which means they DONT have a focus on windows. The quantum 2 is very solid as is are the Okna, Affinity Ultra Series,and Soft Lite. sunrise vanguard or restorations is another solid choice. Stay away from the low end stuff, you will be doung your project twice. |
This post was edited by mmarse1 on Mon, Sep 30, 13 at 18:25
I agree with you, i do not want to purchase a window just because its cheap. Its cheap for a reason. Harvey is scratched off my list. Its now between soft lite elements and okna 800. Thanks |
- Posted by windowsonwashington (My Page) on Wed, Oct 2, 13 at 14:18
Those are two really good ones there. They probably split pot about 50/50 when people see them. I prefer the aesthetics on the 800 but I am neither the majority or the minority in that. Great selections so far though!!! |
Although the soft lite elements is a great looking window and built extremely well, we chose the okna 800 with the antique brass hardware. The okna 800 is just a great looking window especially with the upgraded hardware. |
- Posted by HomeSealed (My Page) on Wed, Oct 2, 13 at 16:00
Great choice! I agree with the above posters and your reasoning as well! |
Agree. The Okna is at a much higher level than anything Harvey produces. The okna 800 is a beautiful looking window. |
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Paul, your thread has gone unanswered for some time. I Googled Aralias, mini, dwarf, but the closest answer, related to your question was growing Ming Alalias in small/bonsai pots. Depending on your terrarium size and shape, you can place a Ming in a small container, then set, pot and all, under bottom material. It doesn't mean there's no such thing as a mini Aralia, but not only did I Google, I also went through several plant books, came up empty-handed. Mings are slow-growing..if you started with a small specimen, it'd take a couple/few years before it needed a larger container. Check out blackjungle for terrarium plants; they have some true beauty's. In fact, they specialize in terrarium plants. Toni |
Thanks, Toni! I had noticed no one had any epiphanies so figured that there likely is no such beast. Pity. The terr in question is a 55 gal. While I had read that mings are slow growing, I have had experiences with other "slow growers" that when put in a terr grew like they were on steroids (had an AV that grew from a 5inch diameter to be a foot in diameter in just a couple years before I finally ripped it out and rehomed it). Wanted to avoid the disappointment of having another plant go on an undesireable wild growth spurt. |
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Having been scorned for their plan to build a $60 million stadium in Hartford, Conn., to lure the Rock Cats minor-league baseball team from New Britain, a city government subsidy to the team likely to be worth around $2 million per year in perpetuity, Hartford Mayor Pedro Segarra and City Council members have reconsidered.
What the mayor called "a done deal" has been undone. Now the idea is to get "private investment" to build the stadium as part of a broader redevelopment plan for the northern edge of Hartford's downtown. The impression being given is that city government, whose finances are always miserable, won't have to subsidize the team to get it to move to Hartford after all. But that impression is probably mistaken.
For no one will build the stadium for free. If bonding for the stadium was going to cost city government around $2 million per year ($2.5 million in principal and interest payments minus $500,000 rent from the team), it will cost a private developer at least that much. So if the baseball team isn't going to pay fully for its stadium, where is the money to come from if not from some other subsidy from city government, like gifts of city property or grants of monopoly of some kind to a developer?
Because its population is so poor, Hartford has many problems. But the premise that a baseball stadium or other big entertainment venue will do much for the city or for the state, which largely carries Hartford financially, is weak. That moving the team to Hartford will only weaken New Britain, another distressed city, makes the premise weaker.
Hartford is already filled with entertainment venues — the XL Center, Adriaen's Landing and the Connecticut Science Center, the XFinity Theater and Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts, the Wadsworth Athenaeum, the Old State House, and the Mark Twain House, among others — and they have not even slowed the city's long decline. All these attractions can be and are left behind as people go home to the suburbs. These attractions do little to elevate Hartford's own residents — and most Hartford residents who have expressed themselves on the stadium proposal have said as much.
If "private investment" somehow can bear the entire cost of construction and operation of a baseball stadium in Hartford and if city residents want it, there will be little objection.
If the pursuit of "private investment" is just the face-saving device city officials use to walk away from their idea of shoving a stadium down the city's throat without consultation, so much the better.
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Judging from his office's press releases, Gov. Dannel Malloy spends most of his time traveling around Connecticut distributing money from the state treasury — where does it all come from? — and the other day he stopped at the Bella Vista apartments for the elderly in New Haven to promote state government's program of cash rebates for rents paid by elderly people with low incomes.
But according to the New Haven Independent, rather than shower the governor with gratitude for the rebates, Bella Vista's residents complained that when he visited them during the campaign for governor four years ago he had promised to return with pizza and they never got it, so where was it?
The governor replied that he had returned to Bella Vista with pizza two years later, though nobody could remember exactly when.
In any case it seemed as if life was imitating art, enacting a version of the old political joke whose punch line is: But what have you done for me lately?
So a few days later, the Independent reports, an aspirant for the Republican nomination for governor, state Sen. John McKinney, showed up at Bella Vista with 10 pizzas and talked to three dozen residents about various issues.
"You've been taxed too much," McKinney told them.
Taxed too much, with rent rebates on top of subsidized housing and free pizza whenever a vote-hungry politician comes to town? Not likely.
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Developers and land-use lawyers have contributed the most money to Chandler City Council candidates in the last two months, according to campaign finance reports filed Thursday.
Five executives with Red Development, a Scottsdale-based company, have given the most, pouring more than $5,700 into the coffers of four of the six candidates.
Executives Scott Rehorn, Mike Ebert, Barry Shannahan, Steven Maun, and Steve Backman nearly doubled the amount of the next most generous group of contributors, five executives with apartment developer Mark Taylor who gave $3,140.
Each Red Development executive gave the campaign contribution limit of $390 to the campaigns of Kevin Hartke and Rick Heumann.
The executives also gave $200 each to the campaigns of Jack Sellers and Tracy Buelna, except Ebert didn't contribute to Buelna.
Dorsha Hale and incumbent Matt Orlando also are in the race, but Red Development doesn't show up in their reports.
Hartke said he appreciates the contributions, but it won't sway his decision making.
"I go into every meeting wanting to hear what people are saying, hear what citizens are saying and look at the projects as they are and see if they're a good fit for Chandler down the road," Hartke said.
Red Development builds, owns and operates high-end shopping centers and has developed shopping centers in Fulton Ranch, the last of Chandler's large master-planned developments.
The company also is in the early stages of a project on 68 acres at Arizona Avenue and Ocotillo Road, according to city records.
Mark Taylor owns and operates eight luxury apartment complexes in Chandler.
Candidates have each filed two reports to document fundraising activity from the beginning of the year.
The one filed Thursday shows the fundraising from June 1 to Aug. 13, which is when the money started pouring in for most candidates.
Heumann, who used to be on the city's Planning and Zoning Commission, leads in the money tally, generating $22,615 in that period from contributors who gave $25 or more.
The Red Development executives gave Heumann a total of $1,950 as did four attorneys with Withey Morris, a law firm that specializes in land-use issues.
In all, land-use attorneys gave Heumann $3,390 and real estate agents gave him $4,429.
He raised $26,065 in total, but he said it won't buy his vote on projects.
"The thing that the zoning attorneys and the development community know is that I want the best for Chandler, I want the best projects for Chandler, the best quality and they know where I stand," Heumann said.
Orlando, the only incumbent in the group vying for three seats on the council, raised the second highest amount of money.
He received more from political action committees than his opponents, raking in $6,300 from four firefighters unions and homebuilder, waste management and apartment associations, and a union representing food workers.
The United Food and Commercial Workers Coalition - a union representing 1.3 million grocery store, meat packing, food processing and manufacturing employees, gave Orlando $2,000.
The UFCW gave $1,000 to Heumann and Hartke.
The union has long been at odds with Wal-Mart for the retail giant's refusal to unionize.
This year, the union sent fliers to Valley neighborhoods to slam Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market's parent company, Tesco, over reports of tainted and spoiled food and its supposed mediocre environmental track record.
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So the top prosecutor in the province of Quebec, responding to a flood of irate callers, has asked Montreal police to investigate an interference call on Bruins captain Zdeno Chara that landed Canadiens forward Max Pacioretty in the hospital.
Meanwhile, Air Canada, a major sponsor of Canada's six franchises, has threatened to pull its dollars unless the NHL "takes immediate action to curtail these life-threatening injuries."
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Even Canada's federal government weighed in after Pacioretty suffered a concussion and broken cervical vertebrae, with the minister of sports calling for "multi-, multi-game suspensions" for plays like the one the Boston Bruins' defenseman made.
We can only guess that some folks north of the border still need to generate hot air for warmth at this time of year.
Certainly the scary visuals from the incident provided plenty of easy oxygen. But the NHL didn't help matters with another mixed-message response to the hot-button issue of player safety. And that's a mess the league's general managers will try to help clean up with under a microscope when they meet next week in Florida.
At least they'll be used to it.
The GMs went through much the same thing last year because Matt Cooke sent Marc Savard off on a stretcher just a few days before their meetings. Blindside hits targeting the head were already high on the agenda because of the injury David Booth had suffered from a Mike Richards hit, but Cooke's timing brightened the spotlight.
Now Chara's unsightly hit has done the same. And finding an answer will be more difficult than last March when the GMs came up with the framework for Rule 48, which outlawed blindsides to the head.
It was hailed as a step in the right direction for player safety, but a year later, no one can say for sure how well the rule has worked, because concussions are up this season. Mind you, the early data suggests blindside hits are less the reason for the increase than other physical and often violent elements of the game, like fighting and high-speed legal collisions -- the kinds of things the majority of general managers and players believe have to be protected as fundamental to their game.
It's part of the conventional mindset in hockey, but with the growing number of players -- including the league's biggest star, Sidney Crosby -- now sidelined, the GMs are under pressure to recommend better ways of protecting their prime assets. As long as they don't mess with the basic nature of their game, that is.
Zdeno Chara's clean discipline record was likely a factor in the NHL's decision. (Getty Images) |
That's why the league took the position -- incidentally not challenged by the players association -- that Chara's interference was illegal, but nothing more than an aggressive and typical hockey play that resulted in an unfortunate accident. And since Chara has never been disciplined before, his game misconduct was ruled to make supplementary discipline unnecessary.
Still, the visuals were frightening and something the league as a business has to consider. From a distance, the view was of a player getting seriously hurt and a star getting away with a reckless and dangerous illegal play, regardless of intent. For that alone, Pacioretty said Chara deserved at least to token suspension.
"I'm not talking a big number, one game, two games, three games ... whatever, but something to show that it's not right," Pacioretty told the TSN network from his hospital bed. "If other players see a hit like that and think it's OK, they won't be suspended, then other players will get hurt like I got hurt."
Problem is that's almost inevitable given how most players are conditioned not to think about those things until it's too late. The league's suspensions this season, which have generally been arbitrary and varying in length, haven't really made much of an impression either.
And they probably won't any time soon. In essence, the intent of Rule 48 and the NHL's disciplinary process has been to effect a change in players' attitudes toward each other on the ice, mainly to avoid taking advantage of an opponent who is in a vulnerable position. But in just about every game, there are instances of players still not holding back and delivering dangerous hits. Often they go unpenalized, or minimally, as with Chara.
It's part of the culture that is a challenge to change.
"There are two types of hits in hockey -- the kind that are strategic and tactical, designed to get the guy off the puck and make a play, and then there's the kind when you catch another guy in a vulnerable position and try to inflict some damage," Montreal forward Mike Cammalleri told the Canadiens website. "Ever since you're a kid you're taught, 'If you're going to try and hit somebody, try and hurt him.'"
"It's how a lot of people are taught to play when they're young, and it makes it a tough mandate to change that attitude."
Especially since no one really seems to want to. In spite of all the hot air.


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Tonight was the start of Rutgers Basketball's season. Most Rutgers fans have long forgotten Rutgers basketball even existed once Rutgers Football took over the school. However, tonight was the beginning of a new era within Rutgers basketball that hopefully will bring Rutgers back to before I started my collegiate career back in 1996. Eddie Jordan is back on the sidelines and tonight was my first glimpse of the person I saw in all those old photos in the RAC when I was an assistant with RU Women's basketball in 1997-98.
Much ado has been made about Coach's offense and offensive philosophy. While many call it the "Princeton" offense, my dad (who played college basketball and idolized Pete Carrill's offense) will tell you what was on display tonight was nothing like the Princeton offense. Even Coach himself said as much in an article today. The Princeton offense was always one of patience and tempo so just when the defense started getting complacent, the 4 or 5 on the high post would either throw a back door pass for an easy lay-up or would shoot over his defender because he'd be playing off of him to much. It was an offense I always remember since Brian Earl and the Tigers took it to RU a few years in the late 90s.
Coach Jordan's offense is way more up tempo that the "Princeton" offense. And while there are aspects of the "Princeton" offense in what Coach Jordan is teaching, those options only seemed to open up as the motion within the offense gave a guard or forward the opportunity to make a play. What I saw being run tonight was more of an NBA style motion offense similar to the one Jordan used in Washington. There was a lot of one on one looks and a lot of up tempo play which looked really good when Seagears, Mack, and Campbell were pushing it and dishing or hitting a shot.
The offense really showed that a few players struggled to grasp what was happening. Wally Judge picked up a few fouls and never really seemed to get in the game. Judge really came on at the end of last year in a more play oriented offense. Malik Kone was also another player that seemed a bit disjointed. I'm hoping that was just because he picked up some quick fouls because we can really use a guy like Kone to come out and put up some tough points.
One player that did not struggle at all was Kadeem Jack. I always knew that Jack was a guy that could play above the rim and he did just that tonight. Jack seemed to be flying all over the place tonight and really was the scoring stability the offense needed. Whenever Mack or another player would drive, you'd see Jack flying to the rim for a put back or Jack stepping back to shoot a 10 footer. It was a very good performance for the junior and really showed what a versatile and athletic big man RU has on the roster. If Jack can keep up his high level of play, we may start seeing more and move top of the key to back door plays.
One area that Coach Jordan is going to need to improve is his team's positioning from offense to defense transition. It's great that we have an offense that is so explosive and gets players involved. The bad thing is the players seemed to all hit the rim so hard that they were giving up each breaks to Florida A&M. Hopefully that will be a topic of discussion to ensure that when shots are taken, there is a player to fill end at the top of the key and the rest of the players need to hustle back and get in passing lanes to hopefully slow up the opposing team's offense.
Overall, it was a nice debut for Coach Jordan. Any time you can put up over 90 points, it shows that something was going right. There are going to be growing pains along the way, but with the depth and talent on this team where 7 players can go post double digits to help the team, those growing pains will go away eventually.
Congrats to Coach Jordan and the team. Great start to the 2013-4 season!


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THE BRIDE Amy ListermannTHE GROOM Michael WaltersTHE DATE August 11THE SCENE After an outdoor ceremony in Montgomery, guests danced the night away at an intimate and personalized reception.
"We had always known we were soul mates, and we thank God for a second chance and a new beginning," Amy says. The two wanted to infuse their celebration with unique personal elements so they wrote their own vows, designed their own programs, and even compiled a CD for the ceremony.
The outdoor service concluded with a butterfly launch to signify the beginning of their new life together.
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2012 Subaru Impreza
wimchatta Posts: 28In the SF Bay area, do take a look at Livermore Subaru - ask for an internet quote, the salesman there is very straightforward.
I had an almost peaceful, low-pressure experience. Didn't have to negotiate, the price was what I wanted to pay (would have gone elsewhere to shop around if had been higher), so I gladly focused then on fine-tuning the options. Stevens Creek is good, too, especially about being knowledgeable about the cars, but they were setting the price higher once they sensed I had decided on the Subaru Impreza.
Have ordered an Impreza Premium Hatchback w/ Auto, Nav, Moonroof (option code 29), alloy wheel package plus upgraded speakers, fog lamp, remote starter and a couple of smaller options. Satin white pearl, ivory cloth trim.
~$23800 + fees etc. which is ~800 below invoice if am correct.
Will add an aftermarket rear backup sensor array (ultrasonic) when it comes in. Good luck all, you cannot go wrong with the Impreza, I think. -
ericspyder Posts: 24
90legacy2wd Posts: 4I ordered in Kansas City market a 5dr, cvt, premium with nav/sunroof package MSRP$24271. The best price I could find in the KC area was $350 OVER invoice thru Costco. This came to $23,211 + $200 adm. fees. Also tried referral thru AAA and Consumer reports that went through Olathe Subaru and their price was $500 over plus $300 adm. The Olathe dealer said there was no negotiations. That was their price. The True Car/Zag price was 22,903 in late Jan. but up to $23,203 when I ordered, so figured the $23,211 was close enough. The dealer is quoting 4-6 weeks.
The MSRP was increased $300 when I received confirmation which was from Subarunet.com a
site the dealer has access. It gave me a VON number and the MSRP of $24,571. I believe the extra $300 is that the car will be a PZEV. The dealer has not indicated they are passing this on to me.
In conclusion, the best price I could find in KC market was $350 over +$200 adm. Additionally I was the person who was the aggressor in calling the dealers. neither initially responded from the Costco, AAA, or Consumer Reports referrals and once contacting them I did not here back for a week and had to call the sales person. They claimed they had been busy. -
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once_for_all Posts: 1,640while the pricing should be straightforward, it seems that the printed prices aren't really the prices (in other words, there is the price, and then there is the real price...sound confusing?).
When I started negotiations, I told the salesman what I wanted and that I wanted to pay $100 below invoice. It took him less than 5 minutes to offer me a price at $200 below invoice (apparently, everyone gets "employee" pricing for February and March).
Go figure. They aren't losing money, that's for sure.
John -
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rjmas95 Posts: 2Can anyone tell me if the larger/lower-profile tires on the Sport model yield a harsher or noisier ride than the sedan?
I'm about ready to buy, but haven't had a chance to drive a sport model. I know I don't want a base hatch, because without the gunmetal rims it looks to staid to me, so that leaves me choosing between a premium sedan or sport premium hatch. I'm a young guy and really like the style of the sport model, but I do a great deal of highway driving and find tire noise to be rather irksome. Any insight? -
fracker Posts: 31st tank on my Impreza hatchback with auto tranny I got 21mpg(did dealer completely fill the tank???). 2nd tank which I completely filled was 32 mpg on a 230 mile trip. 35 miles were city,rest 2 lane highway with 3000 ft decent going(into a BIG headwind) & 3000 foot ascent on return. I suspect this car will get 36mpg on trips. Is GREAT in heavy snow on steep ascents(I live in snow country). From many dead stops in 8 inches of snow on steeps it just takes off, NO slippage at all. Skis dented the arm rest upholstery though.
aknight3 Posts: 9Hi all,
I haven't had a chance to test drive it, but I'm very interested in the 2012 Impreza Hatchback. I currently own a 2007 Forester which I love, but I would like to get better gas mileage. I play a large stand up bass and need to be able to fit it in the car. My dealer will not have any in until next week. So, I'm wondering how the space compares to the Forester and if a standard will get better gas mileage than an automatic. Thanks!
camdoll Posts: 13Thats my car! I got the sport premium in WSP and got the windows tinted at 24% front/18%back. Looks super slick with the bright SWP and the gunmetal wheels.
NEVER thought I would ever like a white car, but this thing is one handsome looking car!
As far as I know, this combination is very rare. Where are you located? Maybe you saw mine?? -
jd_24 Posts: 92I own a 2001 Outback, and the Impreza space at least in the passenger area is slightly bigger. Cargo area measurements I found on a web page indicate the following with the seat folded down.
61" total length from behind rear seats to hatch.
95" total length from front console to hatch.
30" height.
42" wide at rear wheel wells.
At least with the EPA ratings the automatic gets better gas mileage. I think this has been a theme for Subaru for a while.
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wimchatta Posts: 28Hi Bob,
The ultrasonic backup warning, based on an array of four sensors on the rear bumper, is $450 - $650 installed, based on three quotes, two from dealers and one from a Pleasanton garage shop. Have not yet determined the brand, capability etc. - my Odyssey's backup warning system (cost $650) works great, hence want the same capability in the Impreza.
I did not look for a backup camera, believe the ultrasonic with auditory warning is sufficient for safety, and maybe safer than looking at a screen within the console. -
willee Posts: 3Four tanks over varied terrain at varying temperatures driving around 60-70 mph gave us a consistent 32.5 mpg. I expect this to continue and maybe improve as the car breaks in.
Tires are at least as good as the Generals we've had on earlier Subarus, and way better than the Potenzas Subi used to supply. Nothing brilliant, but nothing hair-raising. We will probably change to Hankook Optimos when they wear down.
The ride and roominess is outstanding for any size car.
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birdadly Posts: 10In the same boat here, I'm wondering how long it takes to get from Vancouver to Chicago! Just today I got a call saying that it's in North America and soon to be on it's way! Now to decide if I'm getting an extended warranty or the interior/exterior protection plans... I hate the extra costs!!
xwesx Fairbanks, AlaskaPosts: 8,734As stated previously, you do not need to get the extended warranty at the time of purchase. One advantage, possibly, is that you can roll the cost of the warranty into the new car financing if you go that route, but you can also pay for the warranty on a payment plan later on.
I don't think there is much, if any, value in the protection plans, which are likely dealer-based as opposed to the extended warranty (which is backed by Subaru).2010 Subaru Forester, 2011 Ford Fiesta, 1969 Chevrolet C20 Pickup, 1969 Ford Econoline 100, 1976 Ford F250 Pickup, 1974 Ford Pinto Wagon -
kanjii Posts: 99Ya know, mine was also the first Impreza to arrive at Broadway Subie in Oakland. They let me take it home, then called me to tell me that it shouldn't have goe out yet because the did not replace the master cylinder yet, which was a problem back a few months ago..kinda recall thing.
impreza_rocks Posts: 2I am thinking of ordering a Marine Blue 2012 2.0 Sport Limited with MR and Nav (CLL 63) with remote starter.
Details on Subie Impreza ordering can be found here: http://www.subaruofkeene.com/2012-subaru-impreza.htm
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wdr_co Posts: 1One week into ownership of 2012 Impreza 5-door. Loving it, except that the passenger air bag indicator shows "ON" when there is no one in the seat. Even tossing the mail in the front seat is enough to set it off.
Is it meant to be this sensitive or is there a weight threshold when it should go off? This is going to be a problem if you can't have anything in the front seat. I can put the seat belt on, but really I want the air bag to be off if no one is sitting there. No sense in it deploying in case of accident if there is no one in the seat. Can I install a kill switch (without voiding warranty)?
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xwesx Fairbanks, AlaskaPosts: 8,734It should be weight sensitive, but I don't know how much for that particular vehicle. I want to say about 20# of weight on the seat. My Outbacks ('07 and '08) were set to activate for an ~100# occupant. With the '07, it would sometimes come on with a fifth grader in the front seat who weighted about 90#, so maybe he carried too much weight up high! :P
On the '08, I drove it a few thousand miles with my son (three+ at the time) in the seat, plus his car seat. The light never switched from "off." My guess that he weighed about 35#, plus another ? for the seat.
Your owner manual should say for sure.2010 Subaru Forester, 2011 Ford Fiesta, 1969 Chevrolet C20 Pickup, 1969 Ford Econoline 100, 1976 Ford F250 Pickup, 1974 Ford Pinto Wagon


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In my opinion, this will be one of the most interesting and important
NATO summits in the past decade or so. Rasmussen has said he wants to
exercise the ghosts of past, but it seems that more ghosts are raised
for this summit than those of past. So many things hang in the balance
1) Russian-US reset - which is dependent on START and BMD on the US end,
in which Russia will let those issues affect the supplies to
Afghanistan. The US has screwed around on START and refuses to give
Russia any reply on its BMD plans. Russia is impatient. Moscow is unsure
if Obama can bend to the Russians or act strong against them on either
of these issues, instead of just letting the issues rot off to the side.
Russia is still unsure what a so-called lame-duck Obama looks like.
Russia has so many things it needs to do in the next year - especially
concerning domestic issues - that it must know what the US intentions
are. If it doesn't then things grow more difficult. Whenever Moscow is
uncertain of Washington then Russia acts more erratic - ensuring that
the US is nervous too. In this, you can expect many previous issues that
were put to bed, to be woken back up.
2) The future of NATO - not only in a new Strategic Concept/New NATO
(whatever they want to call it), but also in how secure the NATO
heavyweights and smaller states feel secure in the alliance. Russia will
be looking at all the fissures to see where to push. This will not only
impact NATO's future, but Russia's troika security pact and its ability
to press down on the CE states.
Lauren Goodrich
Senior Eurasia Analyst
Lauren Goodrich
Senior Eurasia Analyst